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Augustine and the limits of politics / Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Van Pelt Library BR1720.A9 E57 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941-2013, author.
- Series:
- Frank M. Covey, Jr. Loyola lectures in political analysis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Political and social views.
- Augustine.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Christianity and politics.
- Christianity and politics--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Political and social views.
- Christianity and politics--History of doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 143 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- "What is our business "within this common mortal life?" Augustine asks and bids us to ask ourselves. What can Augustine possibly have to say about the conditions that characterize our contemporary society and appear to put democracy in crisis? Who is Augustine for us now and what do his words have to do with political theory? These are the underlying questions that animate Jean Bethke Elshtain's fascinating engagement with the thought and work of Augustine, the ancient thinker who gave no political theory per se and refused to offer up a positive utopia. In exploring the questions, Why Augustine? Why now? Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue. The result is a controversial book about one of the world's greatest and more complex thinkers, one whose thought continues to haunt all of Western political philosophy."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Preface: A Village of the Mind
- 1. Why Augustine? Why Now?
- 2. The Earthly City and Its Discontents
- 3. Against the Pridefulness of Philosophy
- 4. Augustine's Evil; Arendt's Eichmann
- 5. "Our business within this common mortal life": Augustine and a Politics of Limits
- Epilogue: Loving Crazy Horse and Augustine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-132) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941- Augustine and the limits of politics.
- ISBN:
- 0268006458
- 9780268006457
- 9780268020019
- 0268020019
- OCLC:
- 32543074
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